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Who Won Tonight’s Fox News Iowa Debate?

Well, I must admit, after a long debate, my eye lids were getting heavy as this debate reached two hours. But, to keep my blog readers happy, let me share with you my thoughts on who the winners and losers were.

The winner – undecided. I don’t think there was a clear-cut winner. If I had to nail down just one candidate, it would be Newt. As always, Newt did very well tonight. He has the uncanny ability to take a hit, defend himself, and come out sounding reasonable and intelligent doing it. He clearly has an in-depth understanding of the issues at hand.

If there were a runner up – Ron Paul. Though he was raked over the coals over his answer on Iran, but he had me rethinking my stance. I think he’s getting his message out and people are starting to warm up to it. His biggest problem is he is written off so quickly by the talking heads that no one listens to him too closely. However, I think that could be changing. His answers on judges was his best answer of the night. Dick Morris called him “anti-american” but let’s face it, Dick Morris can’t be trusted. He has changed his allegiance more times that Mitt Romney has changed core values…

Which leads to Mitt Romney. I think he was beat up pretty well and deservedly so. He was finally confronted with two flip-flops that the main stream media has failed to mention. First, he did not nominate conservative judges while governor in Massachusetts. He nominated liberals, even liberals with a clear left wing social agenda. Why should we expect him to nominate conservatives to the federal bench? Second, Rick Santorum brought up the fact that Massachusetts has homosexual marriage because of the executive actions of Mitt Romney. While claims to support traditional marriage, he was the one who ordered the state of Massachusetts to issue the marriage licences to homosexual couples. Learn more about this issue by listening to our last KevCast – The Mitt Romney Deception.

Jon Huntsman sounded reasonable and intelligent. I’m still not quite sure why he is polling so low. I think its time that we all gave him a second look. The guy is not as moderate as people say. Check out his website here – http://jon2012.com/welcome/home.html.

Rick Perry seemed ok tonight. He’s getting comfortable in these debates. Too bad it happened way too late. He did try to compare himself with Tim Tebow, an obvious pandering to the evangelicals in Iowa.

As for the other candidates, nothing new…

So, as usual, here are my live tweets from the debate. Start from the bottom and work your way up.

@RonPaul supporter tries to get in a question on the federal reserve. #iowadebate

@TeamBachmann – its not a good sign if you have to remind everyone that you are a serious candidate. #iowadebate

@MittRomney – I lived in MA I dont concede that you did whatever possible to stop the unconstitutional act of the court blogtalkradio.com/kevcast/2011/1…

Thank you @RickSantorum for bringing to light @MittRomney ‘s real record on gay marriage – he made it law in MA! blogtalkradio.com/kevcast/2011/1…

I’m getting tired, but will try to watch the end of the debate. #iowadebate

Another frozen stream, fox news!

“I’m very concerned about to appearing to be zany.” – @Newt2012HQ after having edited his comments… #iowadebate

Does anyone remember when George W Bush apologized to China for spying on them after they captured 1 of our planes? #iowadebate

“An over-fly zone”? is @TeamRickPerry slipping again? #iowadebate

@Newt2012HQ said he would not take us out of the UN, nor would @JonHuntsman